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P5/6 Health Week Day 3 and 4

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We have enjoyed our activities despite the rain :

Tennis with Kilmarnock Tennis Club :

Fitness and Nutrition with Sophies Mum -thank you for coming in to support our week and teach us all about a balanced meal. We have been challenged to eat a rainbow of fruit and vegetables !

We really enjoyed organising an orienteering activity for the infants and the ECC. We lead the activity and gave Mrs Ross the morning off!

 

Neil from Fenwick Striders came to talk to us all about running. We were inspired by his talk about Lachie Stewart a famous Scottish Commonwealth Champion. We then went outside and ran a mile.

Our last event of the week was the Hexagol. We love this and we even helped Darren and Grant tidy the equipment away – we needed muscle power and teamwork!

We have had a great week of activities and we are looking forwar to Sports Day on the 10th June.

 

 

P5/6 Coding

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Today we learned how to debug programs.

We programmed Marty following a program in our workbook and then debugged the program so that Marty would follow the instructions.

We enjoyed free play programming on Scratch to create our own games

One group programmed Dash to move around the classroom , under legs and through tables.

Our last group used Code.org to practise their  coding skills following the instructions to move through the levels.

 

 

 

 

P5/6 Grid Reference Work

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Today we used a variety of skills to complete a maths teamwork task with Miss Murphy.

We had to follow instructions, plan, measure, cut and  work as a team to create our own  100 square grid.

We then used mathematical language to direct each other to place objects on the correct square on our grids.

We used the terms  – 90 degree turn, 180 degree turn, 270 degree turn and 360 degree turn, clockwise and anticlockwise.

P5/6 Writing

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Setting the Scene

During creative writing this week, we have been learning how to set the scene for our stories.

Today we took part in a writing workshop in class where we uplevelled our descriptive writing skills.  We learned how to move verbs about in a sentence, how to vary the length of our sentences and how to use a thesaurus to improve our vocabulary .

We then became set designers and chose a description to create our own sets. Some of us would love to do this as a career.

STEM task : create a charcter for your set and make them stand up .

Lots of fun active learning in class today.

Ask us all about what we did – you can read about it on our individual E-portfolios.